"Focusing on early nineteenth-century England-and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot-Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change. Treating pho…
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Siegfried Kracauer was a leading figure on the Weimar arts scene and one of the foremost representatives of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Best known for a wealth of writings on sociology and film theory, his influence is felt in the work of many of the period's preemi…
"Kitchen Corner, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama shows a painstakingly clean-swept corner in the house of an Alabama sharecropper. Taken in 1936 by Walker Evans as part of his work for the Farm Security Administration, Kitchen Corner was not published until 1960, when it …
Introduction: America's sea -- The Mexican Gulf waters from Tuxpan to Isla Holbox -- The northern coast of Cuba from Cayo Levisa to Cabo San Antonio -- The Dry Tortugas of Florida -- From middle Florida to Mississippi -- The northwestern Gulf waters of Texas and Louisiana -- On …
In the mid - 1860s Arthur J Munby began to collect the first mass-produced photographic images of working-class women in England, recording fascinating details about the women, the places he purchased the photographs and the raging debates on this new commercial practice of phot…
Pride & joy: taking the streets of New York City
by Wajdowicz, Jurek, Clinton, Kate
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More than forty years have passed since members of the LGBTQ community took to the streets of New York City on the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots for the world's first march for gay rights. From its modest, though ambitious, beginnings, the annual event has grown into …
Fabulous montage of new insights, new portraits, and behind-the-scenes stories spanning Hurrell's entire career.
Photographer Chase Jarvis reimagines, examines, and redefines the intersection of art and popular culture through images shot with his iPhone.
Landscape is always with us, deceptively simple, yet capable of providing something much more. By examining the rich variety of Dingus's work and reflecting on the evolution of ideas that lie behind it, Shifting Views and Changing Places invites readers to critically examine the…
Photographing female nudes is about more than just the body. For Laurie Klein, it is about capturing the feminine spirit. Laurie's creative medium is nature. The landscape plays as much of a role in her photos as does the model. Laurie's unique way of using infrared photography,…
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, a moment when the amateur pursuit of gardening and the increasingly professionalized landscape design field were beginning to diverge.…
Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the "grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking," in the words of art historian David Joselit's introduction, the b…
This book is a labor of love for Dr Wu Weimin whose favorite photography subjects are ordinary events which capture the heart of the common folks. The cameras Dr Wu uses may not be the most sophisticated but the images he has taken are truly striking. His award-winning collectio…
"By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant m…
![I [heart] my selfie](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/9780822373179-M.jpg?default=false)
Noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans and artist ADÁL analyze the selfie and its role in contemporary life by exploring it in the context of the history of Western self-portraiture, mythology, literature, art, and philosophy.
Renowned photographer A.J. Meek takes the novitiate on an inspired visual journey with eighty-eight color photographs of the interiors of churches and synagogues located in south Louisiana, mostly along the lower Mississippi River valley. Tourists may crowd the famous European c…
